Higgs boson
For the Love of God Particle, the God Particle Has Not (Yet) Been 'Discovered'
Hey, did you hear the big news? The Higgs boson has been discovered!!!! Oh wait. No it hasn't. Well, at least not yet. So please, for the love of theorized God particles, please refrain for the time being from shitting bricks and/or popping the...
CERN Spikes the Football: Higgs Boson Discovery Coming on Fourth of July
CERN is set to announce the discovery of proof that the Higgs boson “almost certainly” exists, according to the AP. That’s a big freaking deal; it’s been more than 50 years since the God particle was first theorized, and it’s the last piece of the...
An Interview with a Guy at CERN about Seriously, What's the Deal with the Higgs Boson
CERN in Geneva published the latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research results the other day regarding the elusive Higgs boson, a tiny building block particle that’s never been witnessed but its existence is crucial to quantum theory. It’s so crucial...
Do I Detect a Hint of Higgs Boson in This Universe?
CERN researchers announced this morning the barest of hints of the Higgs boson at the Large Collider. It's not a discovery, and anyone that pays any sort of attention to this stuff knew just as well there wasn't going to be a "discovery" announced...
The Large Hadron Collider Backlash Is Going To Be Disgusting
Last month, CERN reported its latest results at the Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India, and "they weren't all that promising":http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/31/7544323-atom-smashing-hype-faces-reality. Instead of confirming a...
Fermilab Closes In On the Higgs Boson
Researchers at Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider are "talking big":http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/03/14/tevatron-experiments-report-new-higgs-search-results/ this week as they prepare to present new measurements narrowing down even...
Are You There God Particle? It's Me, Large Hadron Collider
A mere 3.9 miles in circumference, the Tevatron, in Illinois, is slated to be closed this September, putting the full pressure of human cosmology on LHC's broad shoulders. Dun Dun Duuuuuuuun.